"Can I stop a windshield crack from spreading overnight?" Yes — with a strip of clear repair tape or a resin kit applied before the temperature drops, and a garage or covered spot if you have one. A c…
The short answer is that a chip within roughly an inch of the windshield's edge is still repairable in many cases, but the repair is more likely to fail, more likely to spread, and more likely to be s…
You're in a parking garage at 6:40 on a Tuesday morning and the chip in your windshield has grown a leg overnight. What was a pea-sized pit last week is now a six-inch crack running toward the passeng…
A DIY windshield chip repair kit works by displacing the air inside a chip with a liquid resin that has roughly the same refractive index as the surrounding glass, then curing that resin with ultravio…
"What actually comes in a windshield repair kit?" is the question people ask right after they've watched a rock chip turn into a five-inch crack and started pricing replacement glass.…
If you notice a chip in your windshield that is small enough to hold water, it is almost certainly suitable for a resin repair kit; however, if the damage is large or involves multiple cracks radiatin…
If you notice small, spider-webbing cracks—what we call "star breaks"—that are confined to an area smaller than a quarter, a quality two-part resin kit applied correctly should stabilize the glass and…